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Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

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2014

Information literacy

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Toward A Kairos Of Library Instruction, Emily Drabinski Jan 2014

Toward A Kairos Of Library Instruction, Emily Drabinski

Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

Information literacy instruction in libraries is organized by the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards. Currently under revision, these Standards define a set of external, abstract learning objectives that have been productive of a teaching role for librarians. Simultaneously, the Standards have generated a substantial critical literature that contests the objectives as a “Procrustean bed” that distracts from the particular teaching and learning contexts. This paper offers an alternative organizing heuristic for instruction in libraries. Kairos is an ancient Greek theory of time married to measure. Used by both Plato and the Sophists to understand the emergence of truth from context,kairos …


Tying Television Comedies To Information Literacy: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Eamon Tewell Jan 2014

Tying Television Comedies To Information Literacy: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Eamon Tewell

Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

Many components of Information Literacy (IL) are too massive to be addressed in a single instruction session, yet an introduction to these concepts is essential for students' academic careers and intellectual development. This study evaluates the impact of applying excerpts from television comedies that illustrate ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to library instruction sessions for first-year students. Pre- and posttest results from 193 subjects and interview data from two focus groups indicate that television comedies can be integrated into one-shot instruction sessions to demonstrate IL concepts in an accessible and dialogue-provoking manner.